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THE TRUE NORTHERNER Published Every Wednesday. PAW PAW. MICH., MARCH 21. 1000. Republican State Convention. To the republican elector of the state of Michigan: The state convention of the republicans of Michigan is herely called to meet at the Light Guard Armory, Detroit, Mich igan, on Thursday, May 3d, m at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of nominat ing fourteen electors of president and vice-president of the United States, and electing four delegates at large and four alternate delegates at large to the re. publican nominating convention to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19th, 1900. Each congressional district will elect two delegates and two alter nates to the republican national conven tion to bo confirmed by the state conven tion. Also to select a" chairman of the Btato ceutral committee and two mem bers thereof from each congressional district, and the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before it. Van Buren county is entitled to li delegates. Republican District Convention. A republican convention for the fourth congressional district of Michigan is hereby called to meet at South Haven, Van Uuren county, Thursday, April 21, -1900, at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of choosing two delegates and two alter cates to the republican national conven tion, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the convention. Geo. E. Dardeen, Allegan county, M. O. Rowland, Van Burr n county, J. O. Hecraft, Cass county, M. S. Keeler, Barry county, M. Sabin, St. Joseph county, J. T. Owens, Berrien county, Republican Congressional Committee. Republican County Convention. There will bo a convention of the re publicans of Van Buren county at the village of Hartford on Wednesday, the 11th of April, 1900, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing del egates to a state convention and to a con gressional convention for the fourth con gressional district, hereafter to be called, and for the selection of a county com mittee and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before such a convention. The different townships are entitled to representation as follows: Almena 5 Hamilton 5 Antwerp 13 Arlington 8 Bangor Y.l Bloomingdale 11 Columbia 8 Covert 7 Decatur 11 Geneva 8 Hartford 13 Keeler 0 Lawrence 10 Pine Grove.... 10 Paw Paw 14 Porter 0 South Haven.. 19 Waverly 0 Dated, this 14th day of March, A. D. 1900. Jason Woodman, Chairman. David Andkkson, Sec'y. Republican Caucuses. I AW PAW. A caucus of the republican electors of the township of Paw Paw will bo held at the court house in the village of Paw Paw, Monday, March 2, 19 0,at two o'clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating can didates for township oflicers and for the election of 14 delegates to the republican county convention to be hld at Hartford, April 11, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come be fore the caucus. Jason Woodman, M. o. Rowland, ' P W. J. Thomas, Republican Township Com. LAWKKNCE. Republican. caucus at Lawrence opera house, Monday, March 20, at 2 p. m., to nominate township ticket, and elect dele gates to county convention. PORTKIt. Republican caucus at town hall, Thursday, March 22, at 2 p. m. ANTWERP. Republican caucus at town ha;l, Wednesday, March 21, at 2 p. m. SOUTH HAVEN. Republican caucus at town hall, Sat urday, March 21, at 2:30 p. m. ALMENA. A caucus of the republican electors of the township of Almena will bo held at the town hall in Almena, on Saturday, March 21, 19U0, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of placing in n nination candi dates for the several township ollices, and also to elect the d.-legates to the county convention to le In Id at Hart ford, April 11, 19tX). COLUMBIA. Republican caucus at Grand Junction, Thursday, March 22, at 2 o clock p. m. BANOOIi. Republican caucus at town hall, Satur day, March 24, at 2 o'clock p. m. ARLINGTON. Republican caucus Wednesday, March 21, at 2 p. m. WAVERLY. Acnueusof the republicans of Waverlv township will bo held at the town half, Glendale, Monday, March 20, at 2:30 p. m., for the nomination of candidates for tmvnshin nflleers. for the election nf kit delegates to the county convention to be held at Hartford, April 11, and for the transaction of other business that may properly como before tho caucus. Repeal Some of the War Taxoa. From the ChicaRo.Tribune: There is in the treasury a surplus of $140,000,000. This is exclusive of tho 8iri0,000,000 it is proposed to set asido as a redemption fund. That surplus rep resents partly the receipts from tho sale of bonds in 1898, and partly tho excess of revenues over cxienditures under tho present taxing laws. That excess has been $10,000,000 during tho last eight and one-third months. There would be no such excess but for the war taxes of 1893. Tho war and Mb expenses being over, thoso taxes aro producing a sur- plus which is the fecund parent of a hundred schemed of plunder. It Is a hot-bed of corruption. A part of the surplus not exceeding eSS.OOO.OOO-will be disposed of by its payment as a bonus to the holders of the greater portiou of tho government's bonded indebtedness to induce them to tako 2 per cent thirty-year bouds, which are commanding a premium. This mode of reducing the surplus may not turn out to be so popular in the country at large as its framers imagine it will. There are already sinister intimations that this refunding measure, which seems to have great attractions for a few of tho banks, may be made a party question . Tho payment of bonuses to bond holders may not favorably strike the fancy of the people. The taxes being so high as to produce a revenue in excess of expenditures, tho treasury surplus expands while the amount of money in circulation con tracts. This withdrawal of money from circulation alarms the treasury otlicials, who can devise no better way of getting it back into circulation than depositing it in some of the banks. The moment that is done there is a cry of "favoritism." Whether it is just or unjust it is net necessary to say. Rut it is certainly an anomalous condition of affairs when tho revenues are ho great that the govern ment feels obliged to hand over millions of dollars, without chaining interest, to certain banks, to be loaned out by them for interest to some of tho same people from whom tho money was originally taken in tho form of unnecessary taxes. Thus the money needlessly paid by tho people under a taxing law which was enacted to meet a temporary emergency, now long past, is put at the disposal of certain other people for them to make all they can out of it. They do so by loaning the money, not so much to com mercial or industrial interests as to speculative enterprises, mostly in Wall street. So long as tho surplus holds out, whether the money be in treasury vaults or bank vaults, sturdy beggars will beset congress and sometimes will capture it. They will demand canal subsidies, shipping subsidies, Pacific cable, and pneumatic tube subsidies. Not content with the gift of a lumpsum, no matter how large, they will insist on being quartered on the treasury for years to come. They demand subsidies run ning for twenty years and rental contracts running indefinitely. If they succeed, the government will be saddled with ob ligations which will have to be met in lean years as well as in fat years. When ever another panic comes and tho rev enues shrink, these continuing contracts in which it is sought to inmesh tho gov ernment, will plague it sorely. A surplus engenders governmental ex travagance in every direction. Kvery department doubles its demands on the treasury. River and harbor appropria tions increase. Unnecessary public build ings aro erected. There is greater liberality as regards pensions. Men be gin to talk of a e'0 1,000,000 appropriation for new ships. All tho men in oflice at Washington assert that the government must be run on a "broad, generous scale." Correspondents will soon begin sending dispatches about "cheese parings," and telling the people that "false economy" is being practiced and that a billion and a half congress is not spending enough of the people's money. It was promised when tho war taxes were imjtosed that all of them should be temporary. Yet all are being collected now. Some of them, especially those which are tho most onerous and vexa tious, should bo repealed now. When ever a man puts a stamp on a telegram ho is irritated, for that stamp reminds him that the war which occasioned it ended over a )earanda half ago. The stamp taxes on bank checks, telegrams, bills of lading of railroads and express companies, insurance iolicies, leases, etc., are annoying and unnecessary and should bo repealed. They remain in force solely to create a surplus to be de voured by subsidy sharks. The framers of the "war revenue" law cannot have imagined that a demand would be made two years later that $9,000,000 of its pro ceeds should go annually to subsidize the shipping marine, and $222,0( K) go annually to a pneumatic tube concern which is a job on its face. Tho time has como to relieve the peo ple of a part of tho burden of taxation they are carrying. Tho administration which extends that relief will bo popular. The one which fails to do so will hear from tho people sooner or later. Tho present fiscal system of the government violates all the recognized principles of political economy and business common sense. Nowhere elso does a government impose taxes in excess of its needs and creato a demoralizing surplus. Tho science of taxation is fairly well under stood in England. Xo administration, liberal or conservative, would stay in power a week were it to introduce or to maintain, if in force, a system of tax ation which collected from tho taxpa)crs more money than was needed, and then dposited that money in banks tobe loan ed out to the persons who had just paid it to tho government. An army of lobbyists is devising ways and means to eat up the surplus. The administration, instead of occasionally giving aid and comfort to that army, should do what it can to keep down tho surplus by urging the rejcal of unnec essary taxes. Then it will deserve and get public gratitude. A needless tax is an enemy of the public welfare. As an index to business conditions in the state, a real estate bulletin just ' is sued by Labor Commissioner Cox is val uable. The statistics in it were procured from representative real estate agencies all over the state. The bulletin says: Of 102 agencies interviewed, Do say that real estate business is more active than in 1898, while four say it is not, three not answering. As to value compared with 1898, only three say they are lower, while 72, or over 70 per cent, say they are i higher, 21 say they are about the same, three not answering. The increase in value averages 18 per cent. Over 70 per j cent of these agencies rej)orted an in crease in sales, averaging 40 per cent over tho previous year, only lo reporting a decrease. About 10 ier cent reiorted sales about the same. Confidence in business and lower rates of interest for money are tho principal causes given for the activity and increase in this business, while about 15 per cent attribute the in crease to better prospects for agricultur al industries. Local causes, such as the sugar beet industry and mining, are giv en by 22 as tho cause for the encouraging condition of real estate. Two lonely agents report a decrease in sales and say it is caused by tho scarcity of money. The sales aro the highest in agricultural lands, there being 54 per cent as compar ed with 38 per cent for city or village property. A few, according to location, lead in timber and mineral lands. State polities in the republican party are warming up nicely, especially in the race for governor, and, while many lead ing politicians and newspapers have taken up tho cudgel for one candidate or an other, it is et "anybody's tight," in spite of extravagant claims that may be sent out by any of the versatile campaign managers. It is yet very early, and con ditions may shift in such a way that al most any of the candidates might win. At present, it looks as though Stearns, Ferry and Bliss were leading the race, and about neck to neck in the contest, first one and then another pushing a noso barely into the lead. Campbell is now squarely started, upon a pronounced Pingree platform and with the backing of the governor. O'Donnell and Osborn don't seem to be doing much merely do ing the Micawber act. In the next few weeks, probably beforo the first state convention in May, there will bo a centralization of sentiment or strength around one or two of tho candidates. And may tho best man win! Rev. Charles M. Sheldon may bo a good preacher and certainly is a good story-writer, but does not rise to the level of mediocrity as . a newspaper editor; all of which goes to prove the truth of the old saying that not every good man can keep hotel. Tho Topeka Capital under Mr. Sheldon's manage ment was in no sense a newspaper. Nothing new was in it. Asa religious pub lication, it was not to bo compared with any of the prominent religious journals of the country. Perhaps tho Rev. Charles M. no.v understands that the daily newspaper is not intended to bo an annex to tho pulpit and that its proper province is the dissemination of newsatd information not tho preaching of doc trine or dogma. The early holding of congressional con ventions, which has long been thocustom in some states, seems to have struck Michigan. The fifth district convention will be held May 1, two days beforo the state convention in Detroit and six months before election. The Northerner fails to see any benefit to the party com ing from so early nominations. It seems to us tho wiser plan to wait until after the adjournment of congress, when a congressman's record is made and the question of tho advisability of his re nomination can bo intelligently deter mined. Nothing in tho financial world has attracted greater attention recently than tho distribution of $20,000,000 dividend by tho Standard Oil company last week. This is tho most remarkable dividend payment on record, being nearly four times as large as any quarterly payment on tho public debt ever made by the national government. In view of the phenomenal dividend, tho people do not see the necessity for the high price of keroseno oil. List of Jurors. Following is a list of jurors summoned to be in attendance at tho circuit court, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: Isam P. Ampey llloomingdale Arthur Butcher Lawrence Charles A. Butteriield South Haven John Banker Bloomingdalo John Dellaven Arlington Charles Dodge Waverly John C. Edwards Geneva Charles Geiser Antwerp John Hewitt Hartford O. P. Hudson.... ..Pine Grovo Fred Klett Keeler William Kraiger Columbia Nelson La Duke Arlington Oliver Lylo Decatur Samuel W. Lobdell Hartford E. C. Morlan Hamilton Henry Niles Columbia James Nash Porter F. E. Packard ...Covert C. D. Richmond Bangor C. J. Rico Lawrence (ieorgo P. Scott Keeler William Snow Paw Paw William Talor Hamilton The trial of General Arthur F. Marsh is in progress in the circuit court at Lansing. A jury was secured yesterday afternoon, 22 jurors out of a panel of 29 being called. A letter has been received by a Grand Rapids friend from Gen. Will L. White, who is at Cape Town, South Africa. He went there as a muleteer on a boat taking 1,000 mules for tho British army. Ho says ho is innocent of the charges against him. Fool tho Da mud tho pSpl. People buy comb honey ,'l said a nan from the country, "believing that the fact that It Is sealed by tile honest little bee precludes the possibility of fraud. The fact Is that the bees of many professional 'honey raisers do nothing the livelong summer but pack glucose into their hives from ao open barrel that Is left standing close by. The bee will not search fragrant 'flow ers the livelong day for a trifling amount of pure honey when he can get glucose. The honey men see that there Is plenty of glucose bandy, and Instead of one pound of pure honey they aid the bees lo putting ten pounds of glu cose on the market. "Human Ingenuity has not devised a way for making und sealing the honey comb, or the bee would be dispensed with altogether. In handling the glu cose the bees give It a honeylsh flavor, and If you complain to the bee man that It Is not as sweet and sticky as It should be he will tell you that It Is the early crop and that the heavy rains make It thin. "1 know a man who keeps 60 hives of bees on the roof of his store In the city, and by bustling up plenty of glu cose he gets enough 'honey' out of the buzzing slaves to do a wholesale busi ness In honey. Why, his bees never saw a flower and would shy at a hon eysuckle If they happeued to come near one. He will not even let the poor things have a recess to get a drink of water, but keeps a pan of fresh water laear the hives for them to drink." New York Mall and Express. An Immortal Oration. The funeral oration of Pericles Is pretty nearly what was actually spo ken, or else It Is the substance of the speech written out In the historian's own words, says James Ford Rhodes In The Atlantic. Its Intensity of feel ing and the fitting of it so well into the situation Indicate It to be a living con temporaneous document, and at the same time It has that universal appli cation which we note In so many speeches of Shakespeare. A few years after our civil war a lawyer in a city of the middle west who had been selected to deliver the Memorial day oration came to a friend of his in despair because he could write nothing but the commonplaces about those who had died for the Union and for the freedom of a race which had been uttered many times before, and he asked for advice. "Take the funeral oration of Pericles for a model." was the reply. "Use his words where they will fit and dress up the rest to suit our day." The orator was surprised to find how much of the oration could be used bod ily and how much, with adaptation, was germane to his subject. Averted the Storm. A certain congressman went home at a very early hour In the morning. He had made a night of it with some friends. He kuew that his conduct would be considered reprehensible by his better half, and so, as he ascended the steps of his modest home, he rack ed his brain for some plan to avert the lady's wrath. As he entered the hall he saw an umbrella. Instantly It oc curred to him that the umbrella might be his salvation. He carried the umbrella up stairs. Seating himself on a chair In the cor ner of the bedroom, he raised the rain guard over his head, and then he coughed loudly. Ills wife awoke and saw In the dim gaslight lier liege lord sitting solemnly under the raised um brella. "What are you doing?" she asked In natural surprise. "It Is 3 o'clock, my dear," said he. "and 1 am waiting for the storm." The congressman's ready wit saved him from a (.'audio lecture. He Is wor rying now, however, to find an equally effective act for the next time he stays out late. Washington Post. Force of Habit. In 1S27, Just after Dan Dougherty, the Irish pugilist, fought his famous fight with Jem Belcher, the English fighter, on the curragh of Klldare, uear Dublin, he became Involved In a con troversy with an unknown. The lat ter was not a pugilist, and. not wishing to take any advantage of his opponent, Dougherty consented to fight him with pistols. The two met by appointment, but their seconds, unknown to them, extracted the balls from the pistols and substituted blank cartridges. IJy the terms of the agreement between the principals Dougherty's opponent was to have the first shot. The natu ral Instinct prevailed even on the duel ing ground, and as the fighter's oppo nent raised his arm to fire Dougherty elevated his right arm, as If to ward off a blow, evidently Intending to stop the bullet from hitting him In the face. After this who can say that fighters are not dead game men' Kausa9 City Independent. Arerase Time of a Wink. "In a twinkling of an eye" Is a phrase for brevity, but M. Garten In "The Archives de Ptluger" has found the average time of a wing to be about .40 of a second. The eyelid descends In about .80 of a second, stays down about .13 of a second to .17 of a second and rises again In about .17 of a sec ond. Winking varies much In different persons and rarely occurs when the at tention Is concentrated, but this omis sion Is followed by a series of winks to make up. either by resting the eye or cleaning It Wlarfnm of the Weat. "We find." said the foreman of tho western Jury, "that If. as the prisoner says, the shoot Ln was accidental, then he ought to hang, fer in these gun af fairs a man oughter know his own mind. It oughter be shoot to kill or no shoot A man who has accidents happen to him with a gun Is dangerous to our society au oughter be put out of the way fer the safety of respectable folks." Philadelphia North American. rs. cur' I ' MIGHTY- MIGHTIER- MIGHTIEST-- Tho SworJj TK Pon. and WARNER'S SAFE CURE Powerful to CONQUER DISEASE SAVE LIFE. II All Forms of Kidney Disease. E. Q. BUTLER A CO --GROCERIES IMITATION May be theilncereM form of flattery butlt willnotdoln TEA GROCERIES We aim to keep none bat the good, honest brands of goods, and solicit oar trade. E. G. BUTLER & CO Post-Offlce Block. Robert Hardy's Seven Days Rev. Charles M. Sie doris Latest Stojy WILL APPEAR IN THIS PAPER IT IS ANOTHER UIG HIT, AS FASCINATING AND DRAMATIC AS "IN HIS STEPS." Robert Hardy, a wealthy church member, who is a Christian in name only, is rebuked by his wife for his selfish and unchristian attitude to ward several employees who have been injured and falls asleep upon a sofa, ln his dream he sees everything that is going on in the town about him; his minister discouraged because of the worldliness of people in the church, and particularly because of Hardy's unchristianlike conduct; his son gambling and drinking in a saloon; one of his injured employees whom he had refused to visit awaiting the amputation of both feet; and his lonely wife mourning be cause of his neglect. He then dreams that he is carried high above the earth into the pres ence of the Pace of Eternitv The Face accuses him of his lack of Christ i ty and warns him that he has but seven mo. days upon earth "seven days to help redeem your soul from ev erlasting shama and death." Mr. Hardy awak ens greatly impressed by his terrible dream and believes that it is actually a warning. He tells his wife and children of his dream, admits that he has not lived as he should, and declares that he has but seven more days to live. The clock strikes the hour of midnight and the first of Robert Hardy's seven days begins. In these seven days Mr. Hardy does all he can to better the physical and spiritual condition of those about lum and exactly at the stroke of mid night of the seventh day he But it is unfair to give away the whole plot The reader is kept in suspense tbroughout the story and does not know whether the seventh day of Robert Hardy is his last until the end. WATCH FOR THE BEGINNING cures IT PEPTOKENE 0 j I 1OTK 1E1E0Y I For Dvsnensia. Indigestion. Constination - l i --cj- -- x 1 Headache, and all kindred diseases caused by a disordered stomach. Follow nature by using reptorene I ablets, as incuts found in a healthy siomach, thereby giving that organ rest until the disease is cured, and the natural Secretions will digest the food, the patient fcr-ls all the normal vigor of youth. Found at all druggists, at 2j cts. per box. Si) i) Manufactured by tho Calhoun Battlo Creek, Mich. BLIND GUIDES. Blindness it one of the saddest misfort unes that can befall a human being:. But there is a time when blindness stamps the blind as a criminal. That time is when the blind man undertakes leadership. Im agine the situation. ' - Weak and suffering women, blind as to their own needs, put their hands in coofi- dence into the hand of some self styled leader, with the result that both fall into the ditch of failure, and she, poor thing, stag gers on a few more paces only to fall into the last ditch, the A house appointed for all living." AN EXPERIENCED EXPERT NEEDED. Let us drop all figures of speech and face the facts frankly. Here are thousands of people suffering from disease of one form or another. The cry of the sufferer is for some one to lead him out of this desert of disease into the promised land of health. Here is Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.Y.. who has a record of more than a quarter of a million of cases and 98 out of every hun dred led to perfect health. An experience of thirty years as chief consulting physi cian to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. V., guarantees him to be familiar with every phase and form of disease. But consumption! Is that cured too by Dr. Pierce's medicines? Among the hope less (so-called) cases were those who had the night-sweats, the hectic flush, the hack, ing cough, the racked lungs, and the ema ciated, or wasted body, which are accepted symptoms of consumption. Their home Physicians said they had consumption, hey also said that their days were num. bered. Yet these same people treated years ago, have lost the night-sweats, lost the lung pains, lost the cough, have re gained their normal weight, and are living right along in the hearty enjoyment of a healthy, happy life. They eat well, sleep well, and enjoy life. Perhaps they are not cured. Perhaps their days are numbered. But if the number is three score and ten and they live a life FULL OF HEALTHY ENJOYMENT, life might as well end by consumption as by any other disease. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has produced such re sults in thousands of cases. Mr. John G. Born, 4020 Liberty Ave., Pittsburg, Pa., writes: " Some thirty months ago I said to my wife, 'I don't want to keep anything from you, I must tell you I am in the last stage of consumption.' In December, 1896 I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I could then only 6 peak in whispers. I have taken thirteen bottles, and can say with truth I am greatly benefited. People are surprised to hear me speak. I can halloo, and my voice has not been as good in eight years. My stomach was never in better condition. Formerly I could not eat without suffering very much Immediately after, but now I can eat anything. I am also greatly relieved of that distressing suffocation. " Three months ago I was talking to a man in the shop when another person, who overheard me was greatly surprised that I could sneak so loud, as, for three years I could not speak above a whisper." " I had bronchitis for eighteen years and I was treated by three physicians but all failed," writes David Wartreuluft, Esq., of Shoemakers ville. Berks Co., Pa. " They told me there was no cure for me. I suffered from indigestion, and also from constipation; became very weak. I then used Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery and 'Pleasant Pellets,' and was entirely cured. When I commenced taking these medi cines I weighed one hundred and thirty pounds, now I weigh one hundred and seventy-two and enjoy good health for one of my age. I am seventy-five." " As you know, five years ago the doctors had given me up to die with consumption," writes Mr. K. G. McKinney, of Deepwater. Fayette Co., W. Va. "I took treatment from Doctor R. V. Pierce, and am entirely well now. I have taken steadily, as directed, his ' Golden Medical Dis covery.' " free! free! free! To any reader of this paper, Dr. Pierce's great Health Guide Book, the "People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," a book of 1,000 pages with 700 illustrations, cover ing every theme that relates to health and disease. .It is written on a common sense plan, in common sense language, for com mon sense people. The "Common Sense Medical Adviser " is bound in paper and in cloth. Each book contains the same num ber of pages and the same matter and illus trations. 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